Autodesk Revit Architecture

[#1]

Can anyone tell my why my materials wont work? the generic brick wall renders, but the object next to it renders gray, even though it is supposed to render green. The triangular object was imported as layer green. I changed the material under imported object styles, what am i missing?

[#2]

Is the "render appearance" of the material set? You may only have a shaded
display set for the material. Ther "render appeaeance" is a seperate
setting.

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Jeff Hanson
Autodesk - AEC User Experience Team
Manchester, NH


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Can anyone tell my why my materials wont work? the generic brick wall
renders, but the object next to it renders gray, even though it is supposed
to render green. The triangular object was imported as layer green. I
changed the material under imported object styles, what am i missing?

[#3]

For example: I export a solid green block from Sketchup as a dwg. Import into Revit under CAD formats, origin to origin, preserve colors. The shading remains green in the Revit family. I go to view properties of the object, visibility/graphics overrides, imported categories, then object styles. the block was imported under a single layer titled green. I change the material of layer green, from the generic gray to a green material, save changes. when i import this family into a project, all of the parameters remain the same, under view properties it still shows the layer as rendering green, but when i actually go to render, nothing but gray.

[#4]

I don't really use this workflow when creating families so I don't have much
experience but it sounds like the material definition is dropping from the
family when used in a project. When you are in the project can you see this
layer from the family in the object styles dialog? If so is the material
set correctly there? I would check to see if it is right in the project as
well as the family before import.

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Jeff Hanson
Autodesk - AEC User Experience Team
Manchester, NH


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For example: I export a solid green block from Sketchup as a dwg. Import
into Revit under CAD formats, origin to origin, preserve colors. The shading
remains green in the Revit family. I go to view properties of the object,
visibility/graphics overrides, imported categories, then object styles. the
block was imported under a single layer titled green. I change the material
of layer green, from the generic gray to a green material, save changes.
when i import this family into a project, all of the parameters remain the
same, under view properties it still shows the layer as rendering green, but
when i actually go to render, nothing but gray.

[#5]

I have checked the material settings of the layer within the project. it says that it is supposed to render as the green material i desire, but it still turns out gray

[#6]

Have you looked at the Rendering Appearance of the material definition itself under Settings/Materials?

Scott Womack

[#7]

yes, it is set under render appearance to render as Plastic Dark Green Matte Textured with single color RGB 049 081 018, but still renders as gray

[#8]

 All blocks or elements you imported from AutoCAD should be the colors - bylayer first in AutoCAD to have the right to change in Revit program.